{"id":183233,"date":"2015-01-19T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/19\/first-woman-appointed-halakhic-decisor-in-israel\/"},"modified":"2015-01-19T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T01:07:00","slug":"first-woman-appointed-halakhic-decisor-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/19\/first-woman-appointed-halakhic-decisor-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"First Woman Appointed Halakhic Decisor in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About bloody time.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jennie Rosenfeld has <a href=\"http:\/\/failedmessiah.typepad.com\/failed_messiahcom\/2015\/01\/game-change-first-orthodox-female-halakhic-decisor-appointed-in-israel-234.html\">been appointed the chief religious authority West Bank settlement of Efrat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The moderate West Bank settlement of Efrat has appointed a woman to serve as a religious leader, the Jerusalem Post reported.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Efrat\u2019s Chief Rabbi Shlomo Riskin appointed Dr. Jennie Rosenfeld to the position, which includes the responsibility to answer questions on halakha (Jewish law).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rosenfeld is a student in the Susi Bradfield Women&#8217;s Institute of Halakhic Leadership (WIHL ), which is part of Midreshet Lindenbaum, a liberal Modern Orthodox women\u2019s seminary. The five-year program ordains women, allowing them to issue halakhic rulings and give spiritual advice. The ordination is similar to what Orthodox rabbis have, but the graduates are not called rabbi.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rosenfeld\u2019s appointment is the first time a woman has been appointed to an official position of Orthodox communal leadership in Israel, Rabbi Shmuel Klitsner, director of the WIHL, told the Post.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Even so, Efrat\u2019s state religious council, which would normally pay the salary of a community\u2019s religious leader, is not paying Rosenfeld. Instead, Riskin is paying her salary privately through charitable donations.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, she&#8217;s not getting paid by the community.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n<p>(<i>On Edit<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>My preferred status would be that there is no government funding of religion, but I am very American that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About bloody time. Dr. Jennie Rosenfeld has been appointed the chief religious authority West Bank settlement of Efrat: The moderate West Bank settlement of Efrat has appointed a woman to serve as a religious leader, the Jerusalem Post reported.Efrat\u2019s Chief Rabbi Shlomo Riskin appointed Dr. Jennie Rosenfeld to the position, which includes the responsibility to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,1009,1159,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-government","category-israel","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}